Psychology Publications
The Psychology Department at Western has over 50 faculty members representing four Clusters of Research Excellence. Our faculty work with talented graduate and post-graduate students on cutting-edge questions about human and animal behavior. Undergraduate students in Psychology often participate in these exciting research programs. Clinical Science and Psychopathology (CSP) Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences (CDB) Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O) Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology (SPDP).
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Submissions from 2008
Exploring the Mind Behind Unresolved Attachment: Lessons from and for Attachment-Based Interventions with Infants and Their Traumatized Mothers, Greg Moran, Heidi Neufeld Bailey, Karin Gleason, Carey Anne DeOliveira, and David R. Pederson
Both Maternal Sensitivity and Atypical Maternal Behavior Independently Predict Attachment Security and Disorganization in Adolescent Mother–infant Relationships, Greg Moran, Lindsey Forbes, Elspeth Evans, George M. Tarabulsy, and Sheri Madigan
Nursing Professional Practice Environments: Setting the Stage for Constructive Conflict Resolution and Work Effectiveness, Heidi Siu, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, and Joan Finegan
Similarities and Differences in Mothers’ and Observers’ Ratings of Infant Security on the Attachment Q-Sort, George M. Tarabulsy, Marc A. Provost, Simon Larose, Ellen Moss, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Greg Moran, Lindsey Forbes, and David R. Pederson
Negative Social Experiences of University and College Students, Paul Tremblay, Roma Harris, Helene Berman, Barb MacQuarrie, Gail Hutchinson, Mary Ann Smith, Susan Braley, Jennifer Jelley, and Kristen Dearlove
Submissions from 2007
Childhood Maltreatment, Complex Trauma Symptoms, and Unresolved Attachment in an At-risk Sample of Adolescent Mothers, Heidi Neufeld Bailey, Greg Moran, and David R. Pederson
Understanding the Transmission of Attachment Using Variable- and Relationship-centered Approaches, Heidi N. Bailey, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson, and Sandi Bento
FMRI Reveals a Dissociation between Grasping and Perceiving the Size of Real 3D Objects, Cristiana Cavina-Pratesi, Melvyn A. Goodale, and Jody C. Culham
Stability of negative self-structures: a longitudinal comparison of depressed, remitted, and nonpsychiatric controls., David J A Dozois
Verb Aspect and the Activation of Event Knowledge, Todd R. Ferretti, Marta Kutas, and Ken McRae
Change in Atypical Maternal Behavior Predicts Change in Attachment Disorganization From 12 to 24 Months in a High-Risk Sample, L. M. Forbes, E. M. Evans, G. Moran, and D. R. Pederson
Understanding and Producing the Reduced Relative Construction: Evidence from Ratings, Editing and Corpora, Mary Hare, Michael K. Tanenhaus, and Ken McRae
Unresolved Maternal Attachment Representations, Disrupted Maternal Behavior and Disorganized Attachment in Infancy: Links to Toddler Behavior Problems, Sheri Madigan, Greg Moran, Carlo Schuengel, David R. Pederson, and Roy Otten
Feature–Feature Causal Relations and Statistical Co-Occurrences in Object Concepts, Chris McNorgan, Rachel A. Kotack, Deborah C. Meehan, and Ken McRae
A Common Neural Substrate for Perceiving and Knowing About Color, W Kyle Simmons, Vimal Ramjee, Michael S. Beauchamp, Ken McRae, Alex Martin, and Lawrence W. Barsalou
Submissions from 2006
Short-term and Working Memory in Children with Specific Language Impairment, Lisa M. D. Archibald
Distinctive Features Hold a Privileged Status in the Computation of Word Meaning: Implications for Theories of Semantic Memory, George S. Cree, Chris McNorgan, and Ken McRae
Social, Achievement, and Control Dimensions of Personality-Life Event Vulnerability to Depression, P.A. Frewen and David J. A. Dozois
Phenotypic and Genetic Relationships between Vocational Interests and Personality, Julie Aitken Harris, Philip A. Vernon, Andrew M. Johnson, and Kerry L. Jang
Unresolved States of Mind, Anomalous Parental Behavior, and Disorganized Attachment: A Review and Meta-analysis of a Transmission Gap, Sheri Madigan, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus H. Van Ijzendoorn, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson, and Diane Benoit
Unresolved States of Mind, Disorganized Attachment Relationships, and Disrupted Interactions of Adolescent Mothers and Their Infants, Sheri Madigan, Greg Moran, and David R. Pederson
Neuroecology., David F Sherry
Color Naming Deficits and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Retinal Dopaminergic Hypothesis, Rosemary Tannock, Tobias Banaschewski, and David Gold
Preparing Clients for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Randomized Pilot Study of Motivational Interviewing for Anxiety, H.A. Westra and David J.A. Dozois
Submissions from 2005
On the Relation between Maternal State of Mind and Sensitivity in the Prediction of Infant Attachment Security, Leslie Atkinson, Susan Goldberg, Vaishali Raval, David Pederson, Diane Benoit, Greg Moran, Lori Poulton, Natalie Myhal, Michael Zwiers, Karin Gleason, and Eman Leung